The purpose of this study was to investigate the management behaviours of six top performing sheep and beef farmers from the South Island of New Zealand. Information was obtained through interviews using grounded theory ...

Farming is an industry which depends on the work, decisions and
competence of a large number of individual farmers, each of them running
their own farm business. These business units vary widely in the resources
at their ...

Farm Ownership Savings Accounts are a popular
method of saving for farm purchase and entry into
sharefarming. As at 31 March 1981 there were nearly
7,000 account holders and deposits totalled approximately
$29 million.
The ...

This booklet contains references to almost all New Zealand published work in the agricultural field in 1964. The list comprises two selections: the first, which is arranged alphabetically by subject headings, includes ...

This paper sets out the available information on price trends facing the dairy industry since 1948/49, and some estimates of productivity increases over the same period. The general aim of the paper is to ascertain how the ...

This paper examines post-war trends in rural land prices. New Zealand has a freehold system of land tenure and a land registration system based on the Torrens system first used in South Australia. As a result, reliable ...

This paper is based on the assumptions that world oil
resources are finite and that world oil production will peak sometime
in the 1980s or 1990s (Hughes & Mesarovic 1978 : 139).
Such a scenario is now widely accepted ...

Agribusiness and Economics Research Unit(Lincoln University. Agribusiness and Economics Research Unit., 1991-08)

The themes for the 1991 Conference of the New Zealand Branch of the Australian Agricultural Economics Society were Agricultural Outlook, Economics and Policy, Farm Management, and Marketing and Business. This discussion ...